Abstract
Han Chinese society has molded women as good wives and good mothers for ages, and the women’s subjective identities have been affected by social cultures and gender roles. Through the cultural observations and interviews, fortune-telling in Zhudong Town has been a common culture for ordinary people, and the informants who were born in 1950s define “good life（Hao Ming）” as social ideologies, their motherhood and the achievement of moral social duties. In the framework of the patriarchal culture and of the Hakka culture which emphasize the female standards, the women are the defenders and untiers of the patrilineal society. In this study, I used participant observation and in-depth interviews to find out how the female individuals who have grown in the power discipline balance social and cultural norms, self-cognition and mother's practice. The three Hakka mothers who has been in the social changes are willing to return to the roles of mothers, continue to take care of their children and grandchildren and use various ways to negotiate the social links inside and outside the “home space”. Being a mother is the most important thing in their lives. Fortune-telling is one of the strategies they use to consolidate the motherhood, and their ultimate purpose is to reach the “good life” in their hearts. The informants interpret and practice their ideas of “good life”（Hao Ming）in their own way. Even if they do not subvert the patriarchal society and do not speak out the women’s power, they have penetrated the seemingly unbreakable limits in their daily lives. They not only show the iron-willed and unbending images of Hakka females, but their subjectivity and self-consciousness also grow from it.